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Unseen Ansel Adams
The Hampton Album
The Hampton Album elegantly depicts the industrial and agricultural skills that were taught to students at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (later Hampton Institute in 1930, and finally Hampton University in 1984), the historically black school founded in Virginia in 1868 to educate freed slaves. The original images in this album were part of a series of photographs compiled by W.E.B Du Bois for the exhibition of African American life featured at the sensational world’s fair, the Paris Exposition of 1900.
The Impoverished Students' Book of Cookery, Drinkery, & Housekeepery
Jay Rosenberg's The impoverished students' book of cookery, drinkery, & housekeepery is the epitome of survival guides for college students. Rosenberg, a Reed College alumnus and Doctor of Philosophy, divulges among other things, sage advice in his "What-the-hell-do-you-do-with" Liver recipe, shares his family's recipe for Hungarian Chicken Paprikash where it is reckoned it goes "back to Adam and Eve who got it from the Angel with the Flaming Sword," and includes advice on home-brewing, budgets, and attractive wall-groupings.
Florula Ceilanica
Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) in the Indian Ocean is a biodiversity hot-spot, with over 3,000 endemic species of plants – not just native, but known only on the island. New to European science in the 1700s and 1800s, they are the focus of this university dissertation written by Professor Carl Peter Thunberg. In 18th- and 19th-century Europe, professors wrote the dissertations; the student’s job was to explicate and defend it and pay for its publication.
Ficus Genus [Fig Trees]
Figs form an ancient pan-tropical genus of over 850 species of trees and shrubs that are keystone species in rainforest ecosystems. They may have been the first plant cultivated by humans and play an important role in all of the major religions of the world. They are the focus of this university dissertation written by Professor Carl Peter Thunberg. In 18th- and 19th-century Europe, professors wrote the dissertations; the student’s job was to explicate and defend it and pay for its publication.
